If a High Court challenge against the new mining tax is successful, regional Australia will miss out on hundreds of millions of dollars promised by the Federal Government for infrastructure development ...

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What is Australia doing right and what are we doing wrong when it comes to research and development? A new report released by Innovation and Science Australia shows that we are slipping behind in the global innovation race, we are employing far fewer PhDs, relative to other comparable countries, ...

Labor has provoked a political brawl over its plan to scrap the tax refund investors can claim from earnings on their share dividends. The government says reform will affect some pensioners and low and middle income earners. Bill Shorten says the plan is worth $11.4 billion to the budget over the ...

Discussion of Corporate tax cuts, jobs and wages growth are increasingly complicated by arguments over the accuracy of economic research.
The Australian debate is influenced by whats happening in the United States and Germany....

It's not an easy questions to answer because the Catholic Church is secretive about its finances.
A Fairfax investigation on Monday has revealed that the church is worth more than 30-billion Australia-wide....

First leaders from around the country met in Canberra to hammer out a deal on hospital funding into the future. Western Australia, along with New South Wales, accepted the commonwealth's offer for the next five years But WA Premier Mark McGowan vowed to fight on for a bigger share of the GST. ...